Senior PHP Engineer
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United Kingdom / London / Manchester / GlasgowFull-TimeSenior
Salary not disclosed
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Job Details
- Languages
- Fluent English
- Experience
- 7+ years of professional backend development experience
- Required Skills
- AWSDockerPHPSQLSymfonyNosqlCI/CDDistributed Systems
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional backend development experience with a deep mastery of PHP
- 4+ years of building enterprise-grade applications in Laravel or an equivalent senior background in Symfony
- Mastery of distributed systems, event-driven architecture, and messaging patterns like SQS or Pub/Sub
- Ability to effectively use AI tools during technical tasks
- Knowledge of SQL and NoSQL including performance tuning
- Experience architecting on AWS and managing containerized environments with Docker
- Champion of clean code, automated testing, and CI/CD best practices
- Fluent English
Responsibilities
- Lead the design of high-performance distributed systems capable of handling global traffic
- Develop and refine services to improve scalability and efficiency
- Drive the transition toward a service-oriented architecture (SOA) to ensure modularity and resilience
- Set the bar for code quality by enforcing SOLID principles, design patterns, and testing standards
- Actively coach mid-level engineers through deep code reviews and technical knowledge sharing
- Identify bottlenecks in services and implement advanced caching and database strategies
- Partner with Product and DevOps to translate complex requirements into scalable technical roadmaps
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